City’s new No 7 posted a picture smiling with a club scarf on Tuesday – which provoked uproar from some on Merseyside.

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One user mitch.hughes wrote: ‘When you play at Anfield I hope you score a goal and celebrate because people will come for you, they will hunt you down into a tiny corner by yourself! No money to save you this time, you’ll probably be killed! By yourself, in a corner, no one will come for you because think about what you’ve done and the person you’ve become from fame and money…’

Raheem Sterling signs Manchester City contract at the Etihad

Sterling completed his move to City for £49million from Premier League rivals Liverpool on Tuesday

In the lead-up to the move the 20-year-old was been subjected to racist abuse and violent threats on Twitter

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Sterling posed for a picture holding aloft the City scarf after signing a five-year deal at the club

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Sterling’s three-year-old daughter, Melody Rose, was also threatened in a tweet by Twitter user @Bestellia

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‘Thanks for all you have done for Liverpool son there was good times and bad times but with that said please go F*** YOURSELF !!!!’ wrote asapjavy. While baxter134 posted: ‘Remember the club that brought you up threw their ranks and made you the player you are today and to do that against them is disgraceful . I used to love you at Liverpool FC but now you’re just a greedy scumbag who only plays for the money!’

On Monday it was revealed that police have opened an investigation into the online abuse aimed at Sterling after the most expensive English player of all time received racial slurs, and threats against his three-year-old daughter, Melody-Rose too.

One user, @Bestellia, tweeted on Sunday evening: ‘I’m going to hunt your daughter down and lock her up you f****** n*****! Betraying my club for money, typical f****** b*****!’

While @xRaheemGo wrote: ‘I still hope to see Sterling in a red kit again. Not playing for Liverpool, but his City kit being soaked in his own blood. That’d be nice.’